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🌿 Plant material 🌸 A garden shrub
ninebark

ninebark

1 8.2
A shrub from North America with peeling bark and small white or pink flowers
  • noun
  • /ˈnaɪnˌbɑrk/
  • US
: nueve cortezas
  • We decided to plant ninebark along the walkway for its colorful foliage and lovely flowers.
  • ninebark 3 ft

Examples

  • I planted a ninebark in my garden last year.

  • After a few years, the ninebark developed its characteristic peeling bark, adding texture to the yard.

  • The ninebark in the garden blooms with delicate white flowers every spring.

  • She chose ninebark for the landscaping because of its colorful foliage and easy care.

  • The ninebark blooms beautifully in the spring.

  • The ninebark shrub in my garden blooms with beautiful clusters of white flowers each spring.

  • The landscape architect recommended ninebark as an easy-to-care-for shrub with attractive peeling bark.

Surface Forms

ninebark singular
ninebarks plural

Morphology

ninebark = nine + bark (opaque) = nine + bark

The meaning of 'ninebark' as a specific shrub is not derivable from the components 'nine' and 'bark', as it doesn't follow a standard rule.

Etymology

Ninebark comes from the parts nine and bark, because people noticed the shrub's outer layer peels in many thin strips, as if it had 'nine' layers. So the name fits this North American shrub that you can spot by its peeling bark and pretty flowers.